Sweat-band.



PATENTED MAR. 27, 1906. R. H. & H. D. CURTIS.

SWEAT BAND. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 29,1905.

WITNESSES: INVENTOHS UNITED STATES PATENT orrion.

ROBERT H. CURTIS OF LONG BRANCH, AND HENRY D. CURTIS, OF RED BANK, NEWJERSEY.

SWEAT-BAN D.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. March 27, 1906.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ROBERT H. CURTIs, a resident of Long Branch, andHENRY D. CUR- TIS, a resident of Red Bank, in the county of Monmouth andState of New Jersey, citizens of the United States, have invented a newand Improved Sweat-Band, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a sweat-band having foldinflexible members or leaves upon its inner face so arranged that whenfolded up in direction of the free edge of the band in a hat the saidband will represent a given normal size and wherein when the saidmembers or leaves are folded in direction of the edge of the band whichis attached to the hat the interior measure of the sweat-band will bereduced about a halfsize.

Another purpose of the invention is to so construct the 'olding membersor leaves of thesweat-band and group them upon the band that theinterior of the hat at the brim may be reduced in size all around oronly at the front or sides or at any desired two or three points.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as Will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a vertical section through a hat and the improved sweat-bandapplied thereto, illustrating a reduction of size at the side and frontportion of the band. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the improvedsweat-band removed from the hat and illustrating the members or leavesattached to the sweatband in the position to reduce the size of the hatall around, and Fi 3 is a horizontal section taken substantia ly on theline 3 3 of Fig. 1.

A represents a hat, and B the sweat-band, provided with the usual clothor pliable strip 10 secured to its outer marginal edge and by means ofwhich the sweat-band is secured to the hat at its brim portion. Thesweat-band may be made of any desired material. Usually, however,leather is employed, which is provided u on its inner face with a seriesof ongitudina leaves C, preferably four in number, and said leaves arelocated one at the front, another at the back, and one at each sideportion of the inner face of the sweatband. The leaves C are preferablymade of thin leather, although any equivalent material may be employed,and adjacent ends of the leaves overlap to a greater or lesser extent.The overlapping ends of the leaves are beveled, as is best shown at 11in Fig. 3, so as not to be unusually or uncomfortably bulky where theleaves meet. Each leaf C is attached at one longitudinal edge by acementing compound or other approved means to the inner face of thesweat band B centrally between the longitudinal edges of the band, as isshown best in Fig. 2, the leaves being rendered quite thin where theyconnect with the sweat-band, and at the opposite or free longitudinaledge of each leaf C the said edge is turned over andsecured to the bodyin such manner as to form a longitudinal marginal rib 12. When theleaves are folded up or carried in direction of the free edge of thesweatband, as is shown by dotted lines to the right in Fig. 1, thesweat-band will be of the normal size-size seven, for example since theleaves will have no influence whatsoever on the band. When, however, itis desired to reduce the size of the hat, it is simply necessary to pullthe sweat-band out at its free portion and then fold the leaves Cdownward until their ribs 12 are at that portion of the band where it isattached to the hat, and upon restoring the sweat-band to its normalposition the size of the hat will have been reduced, for example, from aseven to a six and seven-eights. It will be observed that the ribs 12only are instrumental in effecting this reduction in size, as the saidribs will lie between the inner face of the sweatband and thecorrespondin inner face of the crown at the brim, materia ly contractingor lessening the size of the sweat-band where it engages with the headof the wearer of the hat.

It will be observed that a reducing mechanism is thus always at hand inthe hat and may be brought into action whenever necessary. It is furtherobvious that a reduction in size may be made at the front or at the backonly, or at the sides only,or at any two or more points, as occasion maydemand.

The improved sWeat-bandis not materially i the ends of adjacent leavesbeing beveled, heavier than the ordinary sweatband and is i and the saidadjacent ends being arranged to as sightly in a hat as the band now inuse. overlap, as described. l

Having thus described our invention, We In testimony whereof We havesigned our claim as new and desire to secure by Letters names to thisspecification in the presence of Patent d 1 f f tWo subscribingWitnesses.

As an im rove artic e 0 manu actul'e, a sweat-band ior hats, and aseries of leaves of pliable material secured at one longitudinal edge tothe central circumferential portion of the band, being rovided at theiropposite or I free longitudina edges With marginal ribs, 1

\Vitnesses:

J. FRED. AoKER, JNo. M. BITTER.

